Ask your TDs to close the loopholes in the climate bill

Ask your TDs to close the loopholes in the climate bill

We receive and copy this urgent communication from Sadhbh of Stop Climate Chaos. This has urgent priority so please take a stand with us. Ireland could have a new climate law in a matter of weeks. But the current draft of this law has some alarming loopholes –...
Agriculture, the commons and climate justice

Agriculture, the commons and climate justice

A perspective from Leitrim Premise: the Cróga initiative  In December 2019, Good Energies Alliance Ireland published the first county-based carbon inventory report of its kind, choosing County Leitrim as the setting. This was the result of six months of work by a...
How green is Leitrim, really?

How green is Leitrim, really?

That was the question a team of young European researchers hosted by Good Energies Alliance Ireland (GEAI) spent six months working to answer. In December, the team produced the first Irish county-based carbon inventory report of its kind, the Leitrim Cróga Report....
Make Ireland’s climate law strong enough to work

Make Ireland’s climate law strong enough to work

The Government’s draft climate law is too weak to deliver the low carbon future it promises. Ireland’s emissions are among the highest in Europe and rising again. Last week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged Ireland to do more to tackle climate change...